British Wild Birds Crossword

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Questions

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• 1. A bird of prey that specialises in fishing and can dive underwater.
• 2. Crow with bright red down curved bill.
• 3. A common winter migrant this bird with orange chest can flock together with numbers running into thousands.
• 4. Our only songbird that i truly aquatic and can walk underwater to find it's food.
• 5. This little woodland bird has a fiery chestnut tail which it constantly quivers.
• 6. Tumbling through the air during courtship this long crested bird makes it's distinctive calls.
• 7. This woodland bird with long beak rests on the woodland floor until dusk when the male begins it's courtship flight.
• 8. A song bird favorite which was once kept in cages for it's melody. Recognisable by it's long and forked tail edged with white.
• 9. This wetland bird produces a distinctive booming sound.
• 10. Not a bird to be left babysitting the eggs of others.
• 11. The male of this very rare bird undergoes astonishing transformations for the breeding season with elaberate neck and head feathers.
• 12. These fast flying African migrants with red forehead and throat return to the same nest each year.
• 13. The song of this bird has lead to it being dubed 'northern nightingale' or 'mock nightingale'.
• 14. An indescent bird with speckled plumage and an avid mimic.

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• 15. Member of the crow familiy with grey-white patches on face and 'baggy breeches'.
• 16. This secretive bird produces a hum using it's tail during it's courtship displays.
• 17. A bird considered by many to be the sign of summer.
• 18. Flashes of red and yellow brighten up the soft brown of this seed feeder.
• 19. This woodpeckers name belies it's colourful plummage.
• 20. Conifer forests is the prefered habitat of this raptor that returned to the UK in the 1960's after over 80 years away.
• 21. The colouful male breeding plummage that appear during the Spring makes this bird instantly recognisable.
• 22. This colourful bird hoards it's winter acorns in stores ready for the winter.
• 23. Bird with striking black and white plumage and long slender up-curved bill.
• 24. Cheerful ground feeder looking forward to Christmas.
• 25. This little blue and yellow visitor is quick to discover the peanuts (2 words)
• 26. One of Britian's most loved songbirds that insprired great poets such as Shelly and Wordsworth.
• 27. White plumage with a gentle yellow wash over the back of the head makes this sea bird an elegant specimen.
• 28. The drake of this large cumbersome duckhas white plumage above and black underbody.
• 29. A ghostly hunter over our farmlands (2 words)
• 30. You may think you know where this small bird is but it can throw it's voice when singing it's short call.
• 31. This sea bird keeps predators at bay by spitting a foul smelling fluid.
• 32. Most common owl in Britain that prefers woodland habitat.
• 33. Small brown flecked thush with brown tail feathers.
• 34. A tiny garden bird with a big voice.

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